It’s Friday the 13th and we told ghost stories on our evening walk. I truly have an incredible little family.
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pin the beard on the president. designed by raine.
cake made by mimi {& raine}. table cloth made from 25cent bandanas found at a thrift store.
raine wanted to have pies thrown in her face.
the donkeys, elephants, and independents all showed up to celebrate Raine’s seventh year of life! Raine picked the theme of “president party” {not sure where it came from} for her birthday, it was fun making this happen for her.
i know its well into january now, but i have yet to show you all of our handmade christmas. this was raine’s gift to jonathan, her own version of a prayer book. she wrote three prayers for each day. i helped with the cover design, its a mock up of a page from the book of kells. jonathan says that this was his favorite gift.
here it is! raine’s first published book, including 4 stories written and illustrated by herself.
this turned out fantastic. shes says that she would like to make more. so perhaps this is merely the beginning. im proud of her and inspired by her stamina…she worked diligently to make this book happen.
and of course, a special thank you to the papa that spent endless nights making this book happen!
kiki, ezmah's doll, is on the left {named after the incredible artist kiki smith b/c her hair reminded me of hers}, and libby on the right, was made for raine {jonathan named her}.
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these toys were not only made with tons of love, and no money whatsoever, but with 100% recycled materials as well.
all the fabric, rick-rack, and ribbons were hand-me-down scraps from a gracious soul {probably circa 1980ish}, the dowel rods were simply found, the dolls are stuffed with plastic grocery bags (they remain really soft and you can’t hear the bags), the inside of the wands are supported by 6 circle cardboard pieces cut from the bottom of my canned chicken broth package (this was really nice because the perfect cirlces were already made by the indentions that the cans left).
and to boot, the girls love them, though raine has renamed her doll “sam”….
ezmah likes spaghetti,
raine made shadow puppets,
we had a beautiful thanksgiving at the allen house,
later discovered that turkey really does make you sleepy...
ezmah experienced her first white christmas,
dasien was reminded of her heritage,
now we are simply trying to relax.
raine has recently began writing and illustrating her own books and coloring books. i am planning on marketing these real soon….no lie.
our friend suzanne recently made a limited edition coloring book with crayons and we were fortunate enough to get the artist’s proof. well….raine was lucky enough to get it!
raine averi
ezmah jane
hope you all have a great evening!!
chuck close’s painting titled “keith” featured at the st louis art museum. even though we made it to the museum 30 minutes before closing time, we were still able to see a few amazing pieces…..this being one of them. raine particularly liked this one.
hope you all have a nice weekend!
{this is what happens when you leave a 6 year old alone with a pin cushion!}
a few days ago raine had two of her bottom teethed pulled (because the larger ones were coming in)…..so through our discussions of the tooth fairy, she inquired whether or not the tooth fairy left presents for children instead of money. more specifically, she wanted to know if the tooth fairy ever left crystals for kids, and continued to state that she hoped the tooth fairy would surprise her with crystals.
luckily the tooth fairy is a clever little pack rat and was able to scavenge up these “crystals” from a bag of rocks and minerals i had been holding on to from my old college geology class.
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shes one tough girl…. im proud of her; she didnt even cry, thats not to say she wasnt a little scared, but she definitely stuck it out!
today is my daughter’s 6th birthday. theres nothing more true than the cliche of time flying, and days like this only justify it happening.
happy birthday raine!
raine has two imaginary friends that she has known since she was two:. dee-dee (the nice one) and tada (pronounced Tah-dah, like the word you used to say as a kid when you finished something amazing; shes the misfit of the two imaginary girls).
the other morning, dee-dee temporarily came to life in the form of a shadow. raine drew her on our frosty glass door and we were pleasantly surprised to see the shadow ghost on the wall next to her. so when i got the camera out, she grabbed dee-dee’s imaginary shadow hand, then turned to her and said “smile dee-dee”.
here is one of raine’s (my 5 year old daughter’s) pieces that she recently completed on a piece of paper that i was hoping to use…{oh well}…she probably did more justice to it than i could have im sure. i couldnt be upset with her when i saw this precious elephant on a cart. raine creates artwork that is truly inspiring to me. im thinking of making her her own blog for christmas.
*artist note: she says that she made the trunk too long, hence the black mark on the end of it….that is NOT scribbling.
i found this one morning while walking raine to school. im not sure what it is, or where it came from, but it was beautiful. raine was just dying to break it open…
Raine and Zeit releasing her fireflies from the night before. Unfortunately it was rainy and they had no where to go…Raine didnt mind so much. *Note the soccer cleats, pink dress, winter coat (in summer) and gloves…sometimes i wish i was 5 again*
Lately I have found new ways to direct my creative energies. This dress for Raine is the latest project I have undertaken. I sewed this from a pattern that I made myself by measuring her and making a custom fit. It turned out quite pleasant…I’m very pleased! Hopefully there will be more to come…
